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OPINION: Mississippi: A Microcosm of the U.S.
Way back in 1964, the year of "Freedom Summer" and the disappearance and death of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, the "singing journalist" Phil Ochs offered this elegy: …
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Bernie Sanders: For the People
Southerners are friendly folk, so Bernie Sanders is going to hear a lot of "Y'all come!" as he takes his populist presidential campaign to Dixie. The question is: Will they …
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Mississippi: The Next Stage for Progressivism?
A lot is changing in my home state, and the change here says much about the South today.
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'Mississippi is Mine'
What Meredith did not only changed a university, but also a state and a nation.